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Latin America Global Gateway Agenda Turns To Cables And Power Grids

Sigmund Freud
Senior Reporter, Digital and Technology

Brussels: The Latin America Global Gateway agenda is now measured in cables, satellites and supercomputers rather than declarations. The EU-Latin America and Caribbean Global Gateway Investment Agenda, launched in 2023 with 45 billion euros, marked its second year at the fourth CELAC-EU Summit in Santa Marta, Colombia, on 7 to 10 November 2025. Commissioner Jozef Síkela said the agenda had moved from vision to delivery, and 2026 is the year that claim gets tested.

Digital connectivity is the clearest example of the Latin America Global Gateway shift. The BELLA programme uses the Ellalink submarine cable between Europe and Brazil and was due to reach Costa Rica and Guatemala by the end of 2025. It is scheduled to expand to the rest of Central America, Peru and the Caribbean during 2026. A satellite telecommunications project led by Hispasat received 22.5 million euros in EU and Spanish grants, which is expected to leverage up to 864 million euros and cover Brazil, Colombia, Paraguay, Costa Rica, Guatemala, the Dominican Republic and the Caribbean Telecommunications Union.

Computing power follows the same logic. The EU-Latin America supercomputing network for artificial intelligence received 15 million euros from the EU, Spain and Brazil. A new Copernicus Competence Centre at the Caribbean Institute for Meteorology and Hydrology gets 1.5 million euros under the Stormwatch initiative, which gives Caribbean users access to European climate data and supercomputing.

Energy infrastructure supplies the largest sums. The regional electricity integration package covers 24 projects worth 6.86 billion euros, of which Team Europe has committed 2.73 billion. The European Investment Bank is providing up to 2 billion euros, including 1 billion for Central America. Linking national grids matters for the digital agenda too, because data centres and networks depend on reliable power.

The programme also reaches into security and the environment. Two cooperation programmes under the new EU-Latin America alliance on citizen security, COPOLAD and EUROFRONT, each received another 8 million euros and now run to 2029. A sargassum seaweed project could attract more than 300 million euros in loans and 60 million in grants, with Grenada, Mexico and the Dominican Republic aiming to process 660,000 tonnes into products and jobs.

Delivery is the open question. Many of these figures are potential financing rather than money already spent, and the pace of new connections will show how much is real. The next milestones are the BELLA landings in 2026 and the first operations of the supercomputing network. If they arrive on time, the Latin America Global Gateway offer gives the EU a concrete answer to rival infrastructure financiers, and the Latin America Global Gateway record will be easier to defend.

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